Every morning, as soon as the day dawned, the old man and the old woman followed each other to the chicken farm of the four sisters, cleaned up the dirt in the chicken farm, cleaned up, and then carried water and mixing, as timely as a worker went to work. Sometimes when the old man came, she and Jianfeng were still asleep, and when they heard the coughing sound of the old man deliberately disturbing them, they hurriedly got up, ran to the yard, opened the latch of the street door, and welcomed the two old people waiting outside the door into the door, and their hearts were often very moved.

Jianfeng scrubbed his face, pushed the car, hurriedly walked out of the street, and rushed to the electrical repair shop he opened in Mulberry Town.

The four sisters will rush to the south construction site to sell eggs after a day or two. After the factory was completed, the construction workers had already withdrawn, and the local villagers were still not used to calling the name of the arsenal ×× mailbox, and it was still called the south construction site. A few years ago, when the four sisters were selling eggs, they never dared to patronize the family courtyard of this arsenal, and would rather travel more than 20 miles to send them to the workers' settlement in the eastern suburbs of Xi'an, which is unfamiliar to people. There are guards at the gate of the south construction site, and there are often cadres sent by the supply and marketing cooperatives at the door of the family home, who are specially watched there to catch those who dare to steal and sell eggs...... Now, on both sides of the cement road outside the gate of the south construction site, there are farmers selling agricultural and sideline products in nearby villages, all kinds of seasonal vegetables, melons and fruits, fresh meat and fresh eggs, one stall after another, spread along the main road. Some people have built small houses along the roadside to sell daily necessities, and restaurants, barber shops, and taverns have also opened for business. The four sisters came here to sell eggs, and they no longer had to worry about the cadres of the supply and marketing cooperatives confiscating the eggs, which was really emotional!

She came to sell eggs every other day or at most every two days, which was too time-consuming, and put all the heavy labor of the chicken farm on the shoulders of the two old men. She met the purchaser of the staff canteen at the south construction site and reached an agreement to send 30 catties of eggs to the canteen every day, and the price per catty rises and falls with the market price, which is generally lower than a dime in the market. The canteen is trying to save trouble, and picking up the cheap, and ensuring that they can eat the freshest eggs, and the four sisters also save the trouble of sitting there all day waiting for the buyer, and the two are satisfied. She sent eggs to the south construction site in the future, so that she could take care of the chicken farm in the morning and noon, and she could also give the two old people a little rest. In order to ensure that the relationship lasted, the fourth sister filled a box with thirty or fifty eggs and gave them to the purchaser.

The four sisters raised chickens successfully, and obtained eye-catching and enthusiastic economic benefits, and the news spread everywhere, and finally one day, a stranger came into the yard.

The person who came introduced himself and said that his name was Xie Kan, so he simply asked him to solve the problem. He said he was a reporter for a newspaper in the city, and he had come to interview her. The fourth sister listened to the introduction, returned the press card he handed her, and looked at his white face, but there was a small beard, black and shaggy, and the hair was draped on the back of the neck, which was a very fashionable young man's dress. She suddenly raised her head and said to her husband, who was mixing the ingredients, "Dad, this comrade is looking for you!" The old man looked bewildered, at the young man, who was dressed too far from the countryman, and sat down at a small table in the shade of a tree, beckoning the guests to drink water, while eyeing him warily at him and taking a notebook and pen in his pocket. The fourth sister pretended not to pay attention to anything, stirring the feed in the wooden basin, but thinking in her heart, her husband is a supreme god at home, and the three sons and three daughters-in-law and grandchildren cannot disobey him, and there is a majestic step between him and the younger generation, but in the face of such a young outsider, a reporter, in addition to vigilance and vigilance, there is also a look of fear in the eyes of the old man, which is a complicated expression under the cover of pretending to be generous. She heard her husband and the little reporter's very unsmooth answers-

"Old comrade's honorific name?"

"Lu Kejian. ”

"How old are you?"

"Good! in his sixties. ”

"When did you first think about starting a family chicken farm?"

"Hmm...... It was probably around the time of the Chinese New Year. ”

"Aren't you afraid ...... 'cut off your tail'?"

"What tails—bastard?"

"Capitalist tail. Have you ever suffered from having your tail chopped off in the past?"

"That'...... Of course, I'm still afraid. ”

"How did you overcome it?"

"I ......"

The fourth sister saw that her husband was nervously rubbing the small cigarette pouch, stammering, and fine beads of sweat appeared on the tip of his nose. He glanced at the fourth sister as if asking for help, hoping that she would appear soon and answer the foreigner's inquiry. The fourth sister pretended not to see it and continued to do her own thing. She heard that the reporter asked about technical matters, how to prevent the epidemic, how to feed, and how to solve the difficulties of chick death...... The old man finally stood up impatiently, snatched the shovel from her hand, and said, "Go and tell him!"

She answered reporters' questions and saw off the guests. Two days later, the director of the county women's federation and the director of the commune women's federation came to the door in a jeep to conduct investigations, and the four sisters led two or three female leaders to her husband and asked him to answer all the questions they were interested in, which made the old man even more embarrassed. It wasn't until the director of the Women's Federation expressed his concern that he left in the car, and the old man couldn't wait to question the fourth sister and said: "You baby! The chicken farm you run, you should be entertained when people come! You pushed me to the face of people, and I didn't know what the 'temperature,' 'food quantity,' and 'survival rate' were, and I was ...... suffer foreign crimes."

The fourth sister raised her head, pretended to be stupid, and said: "Whenever there are guests outside, it should be your old man's house to entertain and entertain, this is our family's rule." How can I talk so much...... junior

"Uh...... Hey!" The old man choked and couldn't speak. He only now understood the scheming of his third daughter-in-law, intending to avenge his impolite reception of her second aunt. She's really thoughtful. The old man was embarrassed to deny his family rules and family style for a while, and smoked sullenly.

The fourth sister was afraid that her husband would really have a heart problem, so she pretended not to mind and said: "Dad! Actually, I deliberately let you have more contact with those cadres." I see that you are always afraid of those cadres, and if you have more contact, you will understand that they are cadres, but they are also people, and there is nothing to be afraid of......"

As soon as the reporter's article was published in the newspaper, the courtyard of the four sisters became even more lively, and many organized delegations came to visit, and there was an endless stream from morning to night. The secretary of the county party committee and the county magistrate came and praised her, saying that she was the first professional chicken raising household in Hekou County under their leadership, and that she should be greatly publicized, and that she had opened a way for the women of the county to get rich, which was undoubtedly a typical example. Someone asked her to share her experience, someone to summarize her latest material. Someone said to write her reportage. She was asked to fill out a form to by-elect county people's representatives......

She was surrounded by waves of enthusiasm, pounding. She couldn't leave the house, and she couldn't deliver eggs to the canteen of the South Construction Site, so her husband took the initiative to take it.

For the first time, the husband brought eggs back to the canteen of the South Construction Site, stuffed a sugar cane into his grandson, and then took out the money from his underwear pocket and handed it to her. When she took the money from her husband, she suddenly remembered that after she first arrived in the family, her husband gave her five yuan and caused a family dispute because she spent it. Now, her husband has paid her money.

That night, after dinner, the whole family was teasing the younger son, and the fourth sister took out 50 yuan from the drawer and said to her husband: "Dad, you and my mother have been helping me for a whole month, and this is my salary for the two old men, 25 yuan a month each, which is 50 yuan." In the future, the chicken farm will develop and I will add ...... to you"

The family was stunned. The husband looked at her for a long time and said, "What kind of thing is this? What kind of thing is this?

The old woman also chimed in, saying, "Aren't you afraid of people's jokes?"

Jianfeng didn't speak.

The fourth sister said: "I can't let your second elder do it for nothing! The socialist principle of distribution is: pay according to work." It makes sense that you should be paid for what you do. ”

"Hah......h

The fourth sister did not waver: "If you don't collect money, I won't let your second elder continue to work." I'm going to hire someone else in the village......"

The old husband was even more surprised, and his eyes widened: "Don't you dare to come nonsense! Although the current policy is relaxed, hiring people is exploitation, and this is the number one thing that the Communist Party opposes!" Since the liberation, what he has been most worried about is that he is afraid of being promoted to the landlord-exploiting class, and the most important symbol of exploitation in the countryside is hired labor.

"I'm not afraid. The fourth sister said, "I pay people a salary." I don't know if that's exploitation or not. ”

"That being said, you should hire someone else in a hurry. The old man took the fifty yuan, "I will accept this money, lest you hire someone from the side to come, in case someone is held accountable in the future, I say that it is to help my son, and I will leave a way out......

A few days later, the reporter came again and asked about the development of the chicken farm. The fourth sister thought that the reporters were very well-informed, so they asked if they could hire workers and whether hired workers were considered exploitative. Journalists do not seem to have received an authoritative answer to this particular question, speaking vaguely. This led to the fact that the four sisters paid their parents-in-law salaries, and the reporter Xie was very interested, and he got to the bottom of it, and the four sisters couldn't answer it. A few days later, there was a prominent headline in the newspaper -

The daughter-in-law pays her in-laws

Qualitative changes in the family structure in rural China

The fourth sister received the newspaper sent by Xie Kan, read it, and seemed to understand it. She really convinced this trickster, a trivial thing that seemed inconspicuous to herself, and let him analyze so many meanings, which was really amazing!

At the end of the year, the four sisters made new clothes for the two old people and bought back a TV. On the evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the family gathered together, which was really "full of spring and full of blessings". After wrapping the dumplings, the fourth sister said the development plan for the next year, she calculated the account of raising chickens and selling eggs, although the profit was a lot, it was still not ideal. She wants to buy a machine for hatching chicks, which is much more profitable than raising chickens. She said, ** Now that the propaganda encourages farmers to do a good job in the family sideline, many rural women see that she has made a profit and a fortune raising chickens, and their eyes are hot, and the chicks in the next spring will undoubtedly be in demand. The fourth sister said: "This move is accurate, you have to start early, just busy this season, it is not a problem to earn tens of thousands of dollars." ”

The husband couldn't help staring at the third daughter-in-law in a daze, secretly admiring in his heart. This northern Shaanxi woman's estimate of the chick sales that may occur next year is completely correct, and she has a vision to take this opportunity to hatch chicks. He wanted to warmly affirm his daughter-in-law's "move", but when he opened his mouth, he said something like this: "This move is accurate." I said, "What do you want so much money for?" Just these 300 hens, the income is enough to eat and wear, and it's a good thing! If you catch so much money at once, if there is a mistake in the policy in the future, the extra money will become a scourge......

Judging from the current situation, we are calling on the peasants to make money and make a fortune! Jianfeng interjected, "As for whether it will change in the future, I am afraid that it is difficult to predict that it is an immortal." He said this in a high-minded tone that did not intervene, without obvious tendencies.

"I changed the hexagram, and then I changed the plan to change the hexagram. Now that we are allowed to earn money, I will earn it. The fourth sister did not waver, "Dad, you are afraid, if you treat me as a new landlord in the future, you can't even affect you, you are the long-term worker I hired!"

The old man turned his head and smiled.

"When you buy an incubator, you have to hire someone. The fourth sister said, "It will take several people!"

"Don't dare!" the old husband resolutely objected, "The Communist Party allows peasants to earn money, but they are not allowed to hire long-term laborers! ”

"What should I do then?" the fourth sister didn't dare to insist, "But the incubator, once the eggs are loaded, you can't leave people in the dark and day, you have to control the temperature, and you have to turn over the eggs." The chicks come out, they have to be fed and watered, and the eggs have to be checked ......"

"Let Jianfeng go home and help. The mother-in-law said.

"I'm working on the technology of repairing TV sets!" Jianfeng said, "I can't see those hairy straw goods! When I see chickens and eggs, I get annoyed, and when I hear the hen call, my brain is dizzy......

"That'...... In this way, let your sister-in-law and sister-in-law come over and do it, and those nephews and nieces can work. The old man came up with a perfect plan, "First, you can avoid the suspicion of exploitation by hired workers, and second, it will also fulfill your two brothers." Your sun and moon are well, help them too. Your eldest brother teaches and earns a few wages, and now it seems that he might as well raise a nest of hens......"

The four sisters agreed. She can't disagree with her husband's words, after all, they are brothers!

The New Year's bell is ringing, melodious and majestic......